Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

font settings ignored

Bug #124985 reported by Sean Middleditch
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Today (last night's updates probably), my fonts have become god-awful horrendous. At least, the ones in gnome-terminal and Epiphany. The fonts are misformed and blurry, and there's an awful lot of color bleed. The regular application fonts look the same as before. It seems like the terminal and Epiphany are just ignoring my font settings - the terminal is set to use the default monospace font, but it doesn't look anything like the sample text in the font control pane.

ii epiphany-brows 2.19.2-0ubuntu Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii firefox 2.0.0.4+2-0ubu lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
ii gnome-terminal 2.18.1-1ubuntu The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-6ubuntu1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii libvte9 1:0.16.6-0ubun Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0 - runt
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.2-3ubuntu4 the X.Org X server

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Sean Middleditch (elanthis) wrote :

As a further note, Firefox does not suffer from this problem, just Epiphany. (and gnome-terminal)

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Glaydson (glaydsonlima) wrote :

Gnome Terminal. Here too. However, Firefox show ugly fonts. No another GTK application has this problem.

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Sean Middleditch (elanthis) wrote :

after the latest freetype update, Epiphany seems to be nice and pretty again, but gnome-terminal is still fugly as sin.

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Sean Middleditch (elanthis) wrote :

After today's updates, my fonts in both gnome-terminal and epiphany are back to normal, and now respect the settings in the configuration applet. So, the problem has been solved/obliterated/doomed/annihalted/etc.

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Invalid
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christian (christian-helmbold) wrote :

Anti-aliasing settings are ignored in gnome terminal. It has no effect to switch on sub pixel anti-aliasing or to deactivate anti-aliasing. All other Gnome applications are fine.

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